Senior ML Engineering Manager – Manufacturing Equity

Hadrian; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 299,000 - 359,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life_ins

401k

Relocation support

Flexible vacation policy

Equity

Job summary

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America, combining AI, software, robotics and full-stack manufacturing. We are expanding our Technical Data Intelligence team to enable legible engineering data for automation and factory planning.

You will lead ML and software engineers, hire top talent, and influence architecture while staying hands-on when needed. You will hire, mentor, and grow a world-class team focused on ML, data pipelines, and evaluation tooling, ensuring

Qualifications

• 2–5+ years of engineering management leading ML engineering teams in production.
• Strong judgment on organizational design and headcount planning.
• Production deployment ownership with ML systems' health, cost, latency.
• Experience leading teams building LLM/VLM based agents and evaluations.
• Track record of healthy team culture with clear expectations and ownership.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional partnership with engineers and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the people leadership of your engineers: hiring, onboarding, mentorship, career growth, and performance.
• Stay technically hands-on as a player-coach: participate in design reviews and contribute directly to the work when it helps the team move faster or clears a critical path.
• Set technical direction and headcount investments in partnership with engineers and technical leads who drive architecture and modeling decisions.
• Build and maintain evaluation and annotation tooling the team depends on: gold datasets, accuracy metrics, and review loops where engineers correct model output and feed it back into the system.
• Work across ML and software engineering so that model development and the product ship together.
• Ensure engineers are engaged, growing, and set up to do their best work.

Job description

Hadrian is building autonomous factories to reindustrialize America, combining AI, software, robotics and full-stack manufacturing. We are expanding our Technical Data Intelligence team to enable legible engineering data for automation and factory planning.

You will lead ML and software engineers, hire top talent, and influence architecture while staying hands-on when needed. You will hire, mentor, and grow a world-class team focused on ML, data pipelines, and evaluation tooling, ensuring